Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It's utilized mostly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a few pages of your website, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it daily. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated will display the updated quote, so you'll not need to update them manually every time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. This way, you can make your website appear much more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all shared website hosting plans that we provide and enable it individually for each and every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be achieved when using .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to benefit from all functions that our services feature. In case you have already built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes later on, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled without difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the entire process will take you under a minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you will be able to copy out of the SSI article in our detailed Knowledgebase. The only thing left after that is to double-check if all web pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to alter the links to different webpages on your website, as a way to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.